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Cross-National Data Analysis Learning Package (ICPSR 5701)

Principal Investigator(s):Banks, Arthur S.

Summary:

This study contains cross-sectional data on the
economic, political, and population characteristics of 108
independent nations in the period 1961-1970. Also included
are limited longitudinal data for 60 nations in the period
1919-1970. The dataset was developed to introduce students
to cross-national political data analyses. Economic variables
provide information on the gross national product (GNP),
government revenues and expenditures, foreign aid, imports
and exports per capita, each nation... (more info)

This study contains cross-sectional data on the
economic, political, and population characteristics of 108
independent nations in the period 1961-1970. Also included
are limited longitudinal data for 60 nations in the period
1919-1970. The dataset was developed to introduce students
to cross-national political data analyses. Economic variables
provide information on the gross national product (GNP),
government revenues and expenditures, foreign aid, imports
and exports per capita, each nation's proportion of world
trade, defense and educational expenditures as percentage of
the GNP, energy, electric, steel, and cement production and
consumption per capita, and the percentage of the workforce
in industry and in agriculture. Data on political regimes and
systems include the type of regime, effectiveness of the executive
and legislative branches, size of the legislature, polyarchy index
of democratic performance, press freedom, political and civil
rights, number of coups d'etat, major constitutional and cabinet
changes, legislative elections, and dates of independence.
Population characteristics variables include population density,
urbanization index, internal security forces and the size of
the military as proportion of the adult population, and infant
mortality rate as proportion of live births. Demographic
variables include religion, ethnicity, literacy, and languages.

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Methodology

Data Source:

(1) State University of New York, Binghamton, Center
for Comparative Political Research, Cross-National Time-Series Data
Archive, and (2) Taylor, Charles L., and Michael C. Hudson. WORLD
HANDBOOK OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INDICATORS. New Haven, CT. Yale
University Press, 1972.